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Thing, tweet storms like you have seen in the past hour, outbursts, apparently a pathological compulsion to lie and they think, does the united states have an unhinged president. i think there is a reason they think that, by the way, because we do have an unhinged president. >> right. doesn't that then make rex tillerson the most important secretary of state ever in the sense that his job is to represent to the world that this government is okay whatever they think of the person in the white house? >> well, sure, if he showed up for work, if he did that, if he reached out, if mattis did that, ...

Hour, when president trump tweeted that claim that president obama wiretapped trump tower. let me go to the other side of this conversation, while there are some signing up for the accounts setting up alerts, for others, this is beginning to fall on deaf ears. explain that. >> well, the fact of the matter is, several times we've had these tweet storms, monday, tuesday, it gets walked back. now, last weekend was an exception. it took roughly 24 hours for us to get a comment from white house spokesman sean spicer backing up the president's claim that the last president may have wiretapped trump ...

Gadgets against us. now that the secret is out, though, how much is u.s. national security at risk? good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we're going to begin with the politics lead. welcome to obama tapped my phone island. population, president trump. the white house saying the president has no regrets about his fact-free claim that then president obama tapped his phone last year. even though just about everyone else in this city in the know or with the power to investigate the claim says it's not true, or that they've seen nothing that can support the accusation...

Doesn't like, getting angry about something that he was told and turning to twitter. and there's not much more to it than that. >> alex, what's your take? >> i think ashly is exactly right and she had a great story today outlining just how angry the president was over the weekend about a number of things that have been going on. and so, that's what seems to be like what happened here. he turned to twitter and his aids really spent the weekend scrambling to sort of do damage control after he talked about wiretapping on twitter. >> and ashley, very quickly, you talk about what drives him to thos...

His case on. >> one of the things that all of this back and forth is having the effect on is his support among the national security community, law enforcement, intelligence. there were a lot of people who were very much behind his presidency who was speaking to in the fall, who i'm in touch with now and their reaction is dismay. some say maybe these tweet storms that seem to change the channel on what we're talking about and get the media look in some other direction are sort of a dre zi like a fox strategy. but others i'm speaking to say every time we think this presidency starts going in th...